Device for magazining match sticks for their transfer to finishing stages



Feb. 1 1927.

F. MANGE DEVICE FOR MAGAZINING MATCH STICKS FOR THEIR TRANSFER TO FINISHING STAGES Fig. 4.

Filned June 26, 1925 Patented Feb. 1, 1927.

TJITED FREDERIC MAN'GE, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

DEVICE FOR MAGAZINING MATCH STICKS FOR THEIR TRANSFER TO FINISHING" STAGES.

Application filed June 26, 1925, Serial No.

According to the hitherto known methods of manufacturing matches, the match sticks as soon as they come from the cutting machine are piled in disorder, in this form eventually dyed, dried in drying drums or on sieves and then arranged in bundles and supplied to machines for being impregnated and tipped with igniting material.

In this method of operation owing to shaking, movement during drying etc., it is unavoidable that sticks are bent and broken, and sticks are also damaged during charging of the impregnation frames or the im pregnation frames are only partly filled up owing to breakages, so that there may be considerable waste of the sticks supplied by the cutting machine and the. impregnating machine operates with low efficiency owing to its interior charge.

The object of the present inventionis to remove the above mentioned ditficulties as far as possible. For this purpose the sevcred match sticks are collected and as sebled by series in adjacent vertical magazines formed each of a bottom part and two upright springy metallic walls forming a top open and bottom closed channel to receive from above a horizontal row of upright match sticks as a whole, to be carried in this series formation to the finishing stages. This manner of leaving the sticks in groups or series prevents the above mentioned waste in broken and damaged match sticks. Owing to the arrangement of the sticks in series they can be fed individually from the series to conveying devices, without their being mechanically damaged and without any waste of the sticks occurring. Owing to the easy method of collecting individual sticks, no sticks are missed in the conveying devices.

The drawing illustrates a construction of a device for magazining match sticks by this method for their transfer to the finishing stages (drying, impregnating and so on).

Figure 1 is a plan view of the device;

Figure 2 is an end view thereof;

Figures 3 and a show in end view and in plan part of a multiple magazine made up of a large number of individual magazines, showing the arrangement in series of the match sticks in the individual magazines.

In a guideway 1 there are a considerable 39,837, and in Switzerland July 10, 1924.

number of wooden sheets 2 pressed tightly into a block, which sheets are to be cut into wooden match sticks by cutting them across their fiat sides. This cutting of the sheets is effected by means of a moving blade 3 in co-operation with a moving holding back rail 4, these two members acting in such a way that during the forward movement of the blade 3 and the simultaneous return movement of the holding back rail i, the part of the material to be cut which is severed by the blade passes through the oblique slot formed between the oblique edges of the blade and of the holding back rail and is pushed into a reception space by the forward movement of the blade. This co-operation of blade and holding back rail is known in itself, see for example the U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,506,850, and for this reason the means for operating the holding back rail are not shown. It is sufficient to say that the holding back rail always follows the blade in its forward and backward movment and the passage slot referred to above is maintained.

As shown in Figure 1, the wooden sticks severed by the blade 3 are pushed into a longitudinally movable conveying slide 5, which for this purpose is hollowed out in front to provide a reception space for the sticks. Five of these slides 5 are provided. These conveying slides exchange their positions one after the other, that is they first perform a forward movement along the rail 1 whilst they are loaded with a series of sticks, then a short cross-wise movement, then after being unloaded a return movement and finally another crosswise move ment which brings them into the position for loading. The course is the same for each conveying slide 5 and is indicated by arrows in Figure 1. It is so controlled that at each cut of the blade 3 one'of the conveying slides is ready in the loading positi'on, whilst another conveying slide is disposed in the position for unloading above a multiple magazine 10 consisting of individual magazines.

The conveying slides 5 are controlled by a moving transporting slide 11, which is reciprocated by a lever mechanism not shown. The slide 11 carries a spring pressed pawl 12 which is provided on both the front and the back with a tooth 13. If the slide 11 moves upwards in Figure 1,

the front tooth 13 of the pawl 12 slides on an oblique surface 14 of one of the front conveying slides, the pawl 12 is pressed back and its back tooth 13 engages on the edge 15 of the conveying slide at the bottom on the left in Figure 1 and thus the transporting slide in its further movement upwards takes with it the two conveying slides at the left or back. In the bottom end position of the transporting slide 11 the lower conveying slide 5 on the right in Figure 1, which in this position projects into a reciprocating catch fork l7 and has been unloaded into the magazine 10, is moved by the backward movement of the catch fork 17 into the free position in the rear guideway for the conveying slides. On the reverse movement of the transporting slide 11 the pawl 12 engages with its front tooth on the tooth 20 of the uppermost loaded conveying slide on the rightand pushes this and the preceding loaded slide downwards, to carry the latter into the unloading position. When this has occurred the slide now at the top on the left in Figure 1 is moved forward by a plunger 21 into the loading position to take up a fresh group of sticks, whilst the slide now at the bottom on the right in Figure 1 and projecting into the catch fork 17 is unloaded into the multiple magazine 10. In this way each slide is loaded with a group of sticks at the top on the right in Figure 1 and is unloaded into the magazine at the bottom on the right, whilst it is empty on the return journey.

The multiple magazine 10 as may be seen from Figure 1 consists of a series of separate individual magazines of such a size and width that each of them can take a series of sticks. These individual magazines are each formed by two sprung metal partitions 30, 31 (Figures 3 and 4), which are turned to- Wards each other at the bottom to form a base 32 and are opened out at the top so that they form clamp side walls, between which a series of sticks can be inserted as a single unit. The lateral edges of each pair of these partitions are turned towards each other sufficiently (Figure 1) to hold the series of sticks together and to prevent the sticks from falling out laterally. All these individual magazines are fastened to a common base plate 35.

The multiple magazine 10 is intermittently moved forwards by a mechanism not shown a distance equal to that between two successive individual magazines. In the unloading position the respective conveying slide 5 to be unloadedis substantially direct- 1y above the individual magazine below it.

The transference of the series of sticks of this slide 5 into the individual magazine below it is effected by means of a pusher 40 (Figur 2) which is moved down into the hollowed out part of the slide from above by a mechanism not shown and pushes the series of sticks down into the individual magazine.

hat I claim is:

1. A device for magazining match sticks for their easy transfer to finishing stages, comprising a number of parallel ranged vertical magazines each formed of a om part and two upright springy metallic walls forming a top open and bottom closed channel to receive a horizontal row of upright match sticks as a whole, means to collect successive horizontal rows of upright match sticks and to transfer them one by one over the respective magazine channels and means to introduce said rows one by one as a whole thereinto from above transversely to the length of the channels.

2. A device for magazining match sticks for their easy transfer to finishing stages, comprising a horizontal carrying base plate, a number of parallel ranged vertical magazines thereon each formed of a bottom part and two upright springy metallic walls forming a top open and bottom closed cl1annel to receive a horizontal row of upright match sticks as a whole, means to collect successive horizontal rows of upright match sticks and to transfer them one by one over the respective magazine channels and means to introduce said rows one by one as a whole thereinto from above transversely to the,

length of the channels.

3. A device for magazining match sticks for their easy transfer to finishing stages, comprising a number of parallel ranged vertical magazines each formed of a bottom part and two upright springy metallic walls forming a top open and bottom closed channel to receive a horizontal row of upright match sticks as a whole, a number of reciprocating slides adapted to be loaded each with a horizontal row of upright match sticks and to move alternately from a loading position to an unloading position over the respective magazine channels and to rcturn, by another way, to their loading position, and means to introduce said rows one by one as a whole from the slides in unloading position into said channels transversely to their length.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 9th day of June 1925.

FREDERIC hIANGE. 

